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Therefore if we are to keep this
joint agreement, as these speakers say, the states that are guilty of these
offences are excluded from our treaty. If, indeed, we ought to hush the matter
up, we must never say that they are the Macedonian states1; but if the men who are subservient to the Macedonian king
against your interests never cease urging us to carry out the joint agreement,
let us take them at their word, since their contention is just, and let us, as
our oath demands, exclude the guilty parties from the treaty, and form a plan
for dealing with men whose temper is so brutally dictatorial, and who are
constantly either plotting or acting against us and mocking at the general
peace.
1 i.e. the states under the immediate control of Alexander.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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